COLLISION UPON THE DROGHEDA RAILWAY

... COLLISION UPON THE DROGHEDA RAR,.WAY. ON AMondav Rvening, a collision took place on the altove li e. T hle cirCurnstalicS unrile' kvlicL] tilo ROCj_ dent toni ; place are these_:-A ptssenr train li'aves ?? in thl eveiting, at twvuity flve m sines to Iliae. A goods train leaves Dulithilt at six in tile evening. lotht ttrailns inset usually at the ltdfast juiction-shott is, tie goods trait] ...

Published: Friday 23 February 1855
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 1312 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

A TALE OF HIGH LIFE

... re.. - - , - - . t- - .l- lp_. For the sake of brevity awe adopt from the Tinses the following abstract of a case which has naturally excited much interest within the last week or two:- e In the gloomy autumn of 1847, when the mind of France s was disturbed by the undefinable presage of approaching r revolution-when men, roused from their ordinary pursuits, a began to cast the horoscope of the ...

Published: Wednesday 28 February 1855
Newspaper: Derby Mercury
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1469 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

STATISTICAL SOCIETY.—DEFENCE OF LOANS RAISED BY MR. PITT

... STATISTICAL SOCIETY.-D FENCE OF 'LOANS RAISED BY MRt PITT. The following is a further porti n of Mr. New- March's papers read before the StatisticallSociety on Monday last: 44 COMMEECIAL fMlEARRAES3MENT AND SOCIETY IN THE EARLY PART OF 1793. The war commenced under circumstances of great in- iernal embarrassment in the country. The harvest of 1792 was the third of the dark series of aeasons ...

Published: Thursday 22 February 1855
Newspaper: Daily News (London)
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 2697 | Page: Page 5, 6 | Tags: News 

THE WEATHER

... THE 1WEATHER. A rapid thaw, with a south-westerly wind,washailed by thousands of the industrious classes in the metropolis last Saturday morning. Labourers were at ones set to work to demolish the ice in the basins of the several decks in the Thames in order, if possible, to get the ships clear. The break up of the ice in the river, where it is fast above bridge, and in the various creeks, is ...

Published: Monday 26 February 1855
Newspaper: Daily News (London)
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 896 | Page: Page 7 | Tags: News 

HARD WINTERS

... I Ir A n - - , - - -- - I i[A C1dMUNICATION READ BEFORE THE LAN. s CASHlRE AND CHESHIRE HISTORIC SOCIETY AT LIVERPOOL, BY MR. STONEHOUSE ON THURSDAY EVENING.] re As the present remarkably long continuance of frosty r weather is exciting the attention of and becoming a subject r of serious interest to all classes, it appears to me that it w sould not be out of place to put upon record, in a ...

Published: Saturday 24 February 1855
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1124 | Page: Page 7 | Tags: News 

DISTRESSED STATE OF THE WORKING CLASSES IN LEEDS

... to O thusdaylas, at 'oon, a meeting of clergy he en, hankers, merchants, meanufaciurers, and othr, a ier hl~td in the Couincil. Chamnber of the Leeds Cour-t-house, of convened by circular signed by the Rev. Edward Jackson't hesecretary of the -Soa-p Committee, To consider th e present to state of the poor ein Leeds. ler The gentlemen present included the Mayor (Joseph Rich-I icc ardeon, Esq. ...

Published: Saturday 24 February 1855
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2851 | Page: Page 8 | Tags: News 

NAVAL AND MILITARY INTELLIGENCE

... Tnp HEstoz;S Co: TaIt WAl.-BY ?? Of the ;; Queen 32 ol the Grenadier Regiment of Foot Guards, th: |wounde at Alma, Inkermauan. and in the trenches up before Sebastopol, assembled at Buckingham Palace, cv within the Grand Hall, at half-past two o'clock on Tues- ad day afternoon, atnd were inspected by her 'Majesty. who ml wras accompanied by his Royal Hihiness Prince Albert, tb the colonel of ...

Published: Saturday 24 February 1855
Newspaper: Ipswich Journal
County: Suffolk, England
Type: Article | Words: 1554 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT

... IMPERIAL PARLfAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS. TaUXSDAYTFeb. 22. MaLeyrtod r aA ?? several petitions from the .Mnyor and Corporation of PwisnIouth complaining of the Municipal Corporation Act of 1835 depriving them, as well U other bodies, of the choice of their magis. trates-3 right which they had possessed under several ch,3nens granted them from the reign of Ricbard I. The petitioners prayed tha ...

Published: Saturday 24 February 1855
Newspaper: Ipswich Journal
County: Suffolk, England
Type: Article | Words: 1368 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

SECOND EDITION

... ~ MORNING CHRONICLE OFFiCE, Friday, 12, Noos. TELEGRAPHIC DESPATCHES. The following telegraphic despatches are given in the foreign journals:- M MARSEILLES, FEB. 21. We have news from the Crimea to the 10th inst., by a steamer arrived to-day, that left Con- stantinople on the 12th. Hostilities had not yet been resumed. Ten thousand Turkish cavalry were to embark at Varna and Bourgas for ...

Published: Friday 23 February 1855
Newspaper: Morning Chronicle
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 6961 | Page: Page 5, 6 | Tags: News 

EXETER

... BREVET.-The London Gazette of the 6th contains a list of the officers of the Indian army, who take brevet rank, and amongst the names we find the following connected with this ?? to be Major-Generals :-Brice Wakeford Lee, and Stanley Bullock. Lieut.- Colonels to be Colonels:-Edward John Honeywood, S. Land, and Christopher Lethbridge. Majors to be Lieut. Colonels:-James Oliphant, Thomas Wren, ...

Published: Thursday 22 February 1855
Newspaper: Exeter Flying Post
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 2851 | Page: Page 8 | Tags: News 

EAST INDIA IRON COMPANY

... We have much pleasure in transferring to the columns of the MERLIN an abstract of the report presented to the meeting of the shareholders of the East India Iron Com- pany, held inLondon on Friday last. It will be seen that most honourable mention is made of the Indian manager, a Monmouthshire man, Mr. Beaumont, a gentleman well known, and highly esteemed in this county, and the son of a ...

Published: Friday 23 February 1855
Newspaper: Monmouthshire Merlin
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 718 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

RUSSIA

... THE PRINCIPALITIES. A letter from Bucharest, of the 3rd, mentions that the Croats in the Austrian service have been committing such atrocities in the neighbourhood of Craiova and other parts of Moldavia, that Prince Ghika at length declared to Gen. Coronini that unless something were immediately done, he would lay a statement of them before the Emperor. Gen. Coronini seeing the firm resolution ...

Published: Friday 23 February 1855
Newspaper: Monmouthshire Merlin
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 166 | Page: Page 6 | Tags: News